The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-29

around the country spending money,
when the house we lived in was mort
gagged for all it was worth.
Cousin Horace Goforth had a house
full of the worst boys | ever saw in my
life. One of 'em wore my silk hat to
festival and got to snow-balling coming
home, and you never saw such sight
as that hat was. Cousin Horace said
he didn't suppose he and Laura would
get around to visit us this year, but he'd
send the boys down to spend their
vacation with us.
81 wasn't sorry to leave Daybreak
when the time came, although they all
leased me to stay, and came down to
the depot to see me off, and sent lots
of love to you and Corny.
81 learned from the genealogy that
Polhemus Blossom was living at
Corymbo City. Now 1 never saw
Polhemus, but l thought he might feel
sighted if he heard I'd been down that
way and gone right past him. So l
dropped him postal saying / was
coming, and switched off on side
track hundred miles to Corymbo City.
81 got there in the night about
eight O'clock. There wasn't soul in
sight but the station-master. asked
him how far it was to p. G. Blossoms,
and he said four miles and quarter,
and he didn't know how I'd get there
unless / walked. So / set out afoot,
carrying this valise. Twas dark as
pitch, and l hadn't gone more'n mile
when it began to rain. After I'd
walked a couple of hours | stopped at
a house to inquire the way. The man
came to the door and said twas only
quarter of a mile further, and I'd
started on again when he called me
back, and said:
"' There's woman here that's just
come from there; she can tell you about
'em if you'll step in minute
wondered what there was to tell;
but stepped in and tall woman in
the rockingham stood up and said:
GO 1 s'pose you want to know how
they are. Well, the children are some
better
Good gracious!' says 1. What's
the matter with 'em?
"' Scarlet fever says the woman
five of 'em down at once. Mrs. Bios
SONS all tuckered out. She'd KEEP up
pretty well till she got letter this
morning saying that some forty-'leventh
cousin of Blossoms was coming to visit
'em; and then she Just broke down
She said she thought they'd had
Affections enough without that.
tell you my heart ached for that poor
woman
/" turned to the man of the house
and l said:
60 How much'll you take to keep me
over night?'
he guessed about a dollar, if l stayed
to breakfast.
81 got out of that place the next
morning on the six-thirty train. | got
off at Albany, and telegraphed back to
Polhemus that I'd decided not to come
that way: and when | reached Detroit
found a letter from Polhemus saying
he was sorry I'd changed my mind /;
but as soon as the children got well
enough his wife was going to take three
of 'em and come out West, and they'd
stop off and make us visit.
81 tell you, Sue," broke out Mr..
Blossom, stalking about the floor in
theatrical fashion, GIVE concluded
the Blossoms are sown plenty thick
enough through this country. l don't
want to live any nearer any one of 'em
than l do now"
But" said Mrs. Blossom, what
on earth are you going to do with 'em
here when all of 'em come visit
ing us?"
"Well, I've been considerin' that,
and guess we'll have to shut up the
blinds, send away the hired help and
give out that we think you're sufferin'
from symptoms of smallpox. "-Ameri-
can Mdqdzine.